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And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Author: Bible
Source: Mark (ch. IV, v. 9)
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He ne'er presumed to make an error clearer;--
In short, there never was a better hearer.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto XIV, st. 37)
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One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Source: The Canterbury Tales (bk. IV, l. 435)
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Within a bony labrinthean cave,
Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave,
This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found,
Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.
Author: Abraham Coles
Source: Man, the Microcosm; and the Cosmos (p. 51)
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None so deaf as those who will not hear.
Author: Matthew (Mathew) Henry
Source: Commentaries (Psalm LVIII)
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Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]
Author: George Herbert
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear?
[Who is so deaf as he that will not hear?]
Author: George Herbert
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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Went in at the one eare and out at the other.
Author: John Heywood
Source: Proverbs (pt. II, ch. IX)
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Hear ye not the hum
Of mighty workings?
Author: John Keats
Source: Addressed to Haydon (sonnet X)
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Where did you get that pearly ear?
God spoke and it came out to hear.
Author: George MacDonald
Source: Song--At the Back of the North Wind (ch. XXXIII)
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I was all ear,
And took in strains that might create a soul
Under the ribs of death.
Author: John Milton
Source: Comus (l. 560)
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Where more is meant than meets the ear.
Author: John Milton
Source: Il Penseroso (l. 120)
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Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius,
Had you a healthful ear to hear of it.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Julius Caesar (Brutus at II, i)
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Friends, Romans countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Julius Caesar (Antony at III, ii)
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Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be
silent, that you may hear.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Julius Caesar (Brutus at III, ii)
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They never would hear,
But turn the deaf ear,
As a matter they had no concern in.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Source: Dingley and Brent
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He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Source: Virginians (ch. XXXII)
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Strike, but hear me.
Author: Themistocles
Source: Rollin's Ancient History (bk. VI, ch. II, sec. VIII)
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It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
Source: None
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Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.
Author: Arnold Glasow
Source: None
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Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.
Author: Stanley Baldwin
Source: None
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The mind is for seeing, the heart is for hearing.
Author: Saudi Arabian Proverb
Source: None
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One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.
Author: John Hope Franklin
Source: None
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Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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